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Draft of a Bill.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

C.O.885

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Short Title.

Amendment of 6 & 7 Vict., c. 34.

WHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the apprehension and trial of offenders who may be in places other than those in which their offences were committed: Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited, for all purposes, as "The Apprehension of Criminals Act, 1875."

2. Where any offence has been committed upon the high seas by any British subject, and a warrant has been issued in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions for the apprehension of any person who is alleged to have committed such offence, any person, empowered by Section 3 of the Act of the Session of the 6th and 7th years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 34, intituled "An Act for the Better Appre- hension of Certain Offenders," to commit supposed offenders to prison may, upon the production of such evidence of criminality as is required by the said Section, commit the person for whose appre- hension such warrant has been issued to prison, there to remain until he can be sent for trial to such place within Her Majesty's Dominions as, having regard to the circumstances of the case, the ends of justice may appear to require. And, in any such case it shall be lawful in Great Britain for one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in Ireland for the Lord Lieutenant, and, in any other part of Her Majesty's Dominions, for the Governor or Acting Governor, by warrant under his hand and seal to order any person, who has beeu so committed to prison as last aforesaid to be delivered into the custody of some person or persons to be named in the said warrant for the purpose of being conveyed